AHA! Alsa provides this cool and intuitive interface for setting the default alsa device,
it's called a "dotfile" and all you have to do is create it with an editor (the truly clueful will use the command line)
in the proper locaiton with the proper stuff in it and all is well.

Wait until I tell my mac friends about *this*!

audiodef wrote:

Audacious, xine and mplayer are all set to use the default ALSA device, right? Do they let you specifically select those speakers?